May 2007
Lee
Allen has been awarded the Holladay Medal for Excellence
in recognition of his outstanding career at
NC State. The Holladay Medal is the highest
honor bestowed on a faculty member by the
trustees and the university. The medals will
be presented during the university’s
Honors Baccalaureate and Celebration of
Academic Excellence, scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
on Thursday, May 10, in the McKimmon Center.October
2006
Tom
Fox has received the 2006 Virginia Tech
College of Natural Resources Award for
Excellence in Outreach.
Tori Batista-Brooks
has joined the team as Assistant Director of
Administration.
August 2006
Tim
Albaugh received the University Award for
Excellence from the College of Natural
Resources and was promoted to Senior
Research Associate.
January 2006
Rafael Rubilar has joined the Forestry Faculty at
Universidad de Concepción as an Assistant Professor of forest
soils and productivity and will serve
as the FNC Associate Director for Latin
America. He is a recent graduate
of our program and brings considerable
experience in soils, silviculture, and
spatial analysis.
Jose Alvarez, Site Productivity Leader for
Forestal Mininco in
Chile, has joined the team
for a year as a visiting scholar assisting us
in analysis and interpretation of field trial
data from Latin America.
Cristian Montes, chief of Site
Productivity Division for Arauco - Bioforest, has
returned as a Ph.D.
student. He will be developing a new
resource driven growth and yield system for
loblolly pine that provides accurate
estimates of growth and yield for the range
of site, climate, and silvicultural treatment
regimes where it is grown.
Jesus Espinoza is a new Ph.D. student
from Venezuela with shared support from the
FNC and the NCSU Tree Improvement Program.
He returns to NCSU from an operational
position with Smurfit Carton de
Venezuela.
Christine Blinn is a research associate working
with Randy Wynne at VPI. She will be taking a lead role in
the FNC leaf area, remote sensing, spatial
analysis.
September 2005
Jessica Tisdale, a
new Masters student, has begun her research on the
influence of variable organic matter
retention on microbial cycling of nitrogen,
phosphorus, and carbon.
August 2005
Colleen Carlson has joined the
Forest Nutrition Cooperative as a Research
Associate based at Virginia Tech with Tom
Fox. Colleen is from South Africa where she
has been involved in various forestry
research projects after completion of her
studies.
November 2004
David Blevins, a recent PhD graduate
of the University of British Columbia, and a
former Coop team member has rejoined the team
as a post doctoral research associate. Dave
will be taking the lead role in the sampling,
analyses, and interpretation associated with
wrapping up the current rotation at the
Henderson Site Productivity Study.
October 2004
Francisco Flores has accepted a research
position with International Paper Co. in
Savannah, GA working in forest nutrition,
productivity, and remote sensing.
September 2004
We welcomed three new graduate students this
fall. Alicia Peduzzi (MS - NCSU) is from
Venezuela and will examine methods to
estimate LAI of evergreen shrubs and LAI
response to operational fertilization from
Landsat imagery. Brad Miller (PhD - VA Tech)
recently finished his MS at Appalachia State
and will be quantifying the long term effects
of phosphorus fertilization on soil
phosphorus availability and cycling on
several Regionwide 7 studies. This work is
being funded by the NRI grant that Dan
Kelting received several years ago. Robert
Sypert (MS – VA Tech) will be examining
responses to micronutrients at several
Regionwide 18 installations.
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